Quotes About Mortality

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

We can lose money, But the loss of human life is loss forever.

It is difficult to create a budget for life when we all cash out the same. Corpses have no currency." -The Years Before My Suicide

Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

Death is the final wake-up call.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.